Apparatus for cleansing, washing, or dyeing woolen, cotton, and other yarns.



P. PINGATO. APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING, WASHING, 0B DYEING WOOLEN, COTTON,AND OTHER YARNS.

Patented Sept. 3,1912,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IPAOLINO FINCATO, OF MILAN, ITALY.

APPARATUS FOR CLEANSING, WASHING, OR DYEING WOOLEN, COTTON, AND OTHERYARNS.

7 Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

Application filed June 24, 1911. Serial No. 635,064.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAOLINO FINOATO, a subject of the King of Italy,residing at No. 6 Via Tamburini, Milan, Italy, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Apparatus for Cleansing, Washing, or Dyeingl/Voolen, Cotton, and other Yarns, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention hasreference to improved apparatus for cleaning, washing,or dyeing, woolen, cotton, and other yarns, and it has for its objectsto provide means whereby all the requirements connected with thewashing, cleaning and quick absorption of dye stuff, of and by yarns ofall descriptions will be fulfilled, including the cleansing and freeingof the raw strands from grease, in order to prepare them' for furthertreatment, dyeing et cetera, and to avoid the entanglement and creasingof the strands.

By the method of hand washing, previously adopted, the hands areseriously affected by the constant use of soap and alkali, and theresults obtained are of an unsatisfactory nature, while with theexisting machines which are fitted with a rotating collar, on which thestrands are hung,

no regular driving of the strands over the rollers can be relied upon,and further, no actual immersion in the fluid takes place, as is thecase in washing by hand, when the strands are pressed and rubbedtogether.

The objects of the present invention are obtained, and the disadvantagesabove referred to, avoided, by the use of apparatus illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is front elevational view of the machine, certain details beingomitted for the sake of clearness. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of thedriving mechanism. Fig. 3 is a detail plan View of the rolls and theirassociated mechanism. Fig. 4: is a detail view of the machine in sideelevation. Fig. 5 is a detail plan View of the roll-displacing means.Fig. 6 is a detail elevational view of the means for adjusting the rod2'. Fig. 6" is a vertical sectional view taken through the rectangularportion of the rod 5, in Fig. 6. Figs. 7 8 and 9 are detail views of thereversing mechanism.

tion.

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the machine, in which details areomitted, to illustrate more clearly the arrangement of the two rows ofrollers. These rollers 01. and b are supported on a framing A and may beof glass, earthenware, or enameled metal and have longitudinallycorrugated surfaces and projecting rims, which reverse automatically.The yarn to be cleaned is hung on the rollers a and b, and above theserollers is arranged a second row 0 and at, similar in all respects,excepting that they are without projecting rims, but of equal peripheralvelocity. The distance between the rollers a and c and the rollers b andd can be altered as desired while the machine is in mo- The rolls exerta pressure on the hanks in such a manner that they can be regulated asdesired, as will be subsequently described herein. The pipes e,proceeding from the pedestal A are provided with numerous side holes forthe emission of the cleansing water, or fluid,.which is fed from acommon conduit, though the right and left hand sides are quite.independent of each other. These pipes distribute the fluid, in a numberof jets, in the required directions, over the yarn.

Fig. 2 is a detail plan view illustrating the driving power of themachine which is situated in the central portion of the frame A, motionbeing transmitted to the rollers by means of wheels f, f, which arecoupled up to any suitable source of power, and thence through thewheels 9, g, as shown in plan in Fig. 8. The lever-7b with movableclutch coupling, serves to arrestthe motion without the necessity ofstopping the driving power; two other similar levers (not shown in thedrawings for the sake of clearness) enable the motion of one, or other,of the two rows of rollers to be interrupted independently of eachother. B, B, are the tanks for the fluid into which the yarns areplunged at their lower ends. These tanks may be raised, as required,either by mechanical means, or by hand, as desired to suit local, orspecial, requirements.

Fig. 4: is a detail side view illustrating the disposition of therollers a, c, on the left side of the machine, a being shown as loweredto a and the higher, or raised, position, indicated by dotted lines. Allthe rollers on one side may be simultaneously displaced by the adjustingrod 2', which slides on its supports a" (Fig. 5) and can be brought intoaction while the machine is working, by means of the adjusting wheels j,situated at the extreme end of the apparatus; the adjusting wheeloperating upon the end of c, which is provided with a worm as shown inFig. 6. Each roller can be regulated separately beforehand in order thatduring the working each can exercise the desired pressure independentlyof the others, this being obtained by moving the pieces 76 as requiredalong the gearing 71, the pieces is being provided with a projectingfinger Z which comes into contact with the arm m, of the movablebell-crank that supports the upper roller 0, as shown in Fig. All therollers have changeable rotary motion, as illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, and9. The middle shaft (1, first sets in motion the three bevel wheels at,0, and p, which are loose bevel wheels and always turn in their normaldirections. On the countershaft between the wheels 0, and p, is fixed adouble clutch coupling g, provided with a double sided catch which gearsalternately with the bevel wheels 0, and p, and as these always turn inopposite directions to each other, the running of the cog wheel a", iscaused to be reversed and the reversing movement thereby transmitted tothe whole machine.

Referring to Fig. 7 wherein the mechanism which produces the reversalsand alternations is illustrated: D is the supporting frame, .9 thecounterpoise adjusted on the beam 8, which is pivoted at 8. To thecountershaft is also fixed the cog wheel 16, which sets the shaft u inmotion through the cog wheel t. The shaft u is provided with a screwthread which imparts a regular movement, in either direction, to thecarriage 'v. m, w, are check blocks against which the lower end of therod, or beam 8, strikes alternately. When, in consequence of thisarrangement, the rod, or beam, 8 passes be yond the plumb line, or itscenter of gravity, it falls, thereby displacing g and producing thedesired reversal of motion. This can be effected more or less frequentlyby means of the regulating device y, which has two screw threads runningin opposite directions, whereby the distance between a, x, can beregulated, thereby reversing the motion, more or less rapidly asdesired, and in a regular and simultaneous manner. 2 is the stud, orprojection, on the double clutch coupling 9, which moves within theslotted quadrant on the lever arm or beam, 8, whereby the double sidedcat-ch on g, is caused to gear alternately with one or the other of thebevel wheels 0, 39. Any number of rows of rollers as may be desired canbe united on one pedestal and they can be arranged on both thelongitudinal sides, so that rollers on each side may be driven by acommon power.

The method of operation is as follows: The hanks are hung by hand on thelower corrugated rollers and then the upper pressure rollers are set therequired distance therefrom. On motion being imparted, each pair ofrollers turn automatically to the right and to the left at the setdistance from each other, the washing fluid being conducted by the pipese and discharged on the yarn. The slide blocks as, w are moved along bythe collar *0 until the weighted lever s, is moved over to the oppositeposition, which throws the coupling 9 into gear with the other bevelWheel, when the rotation is reversed andthe movements repeated until thecleansing of the yarn is complete. The tanks under the rollers serve toreceive the cleansing liquid as it falls from the syringe pipes 6. Thismachine can be used equally well for the dyeing of hanks of yarn, theoperation being precisely the same. In this case the pressure rollersserve to distribute the coloring liquid and to squeeze out thesuperfiuous dye-stuff while the tanks receive the dyeing liquid.

I claim:

1. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising aframe, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, means forsimultaneously varying the distance between the rollers of each of saidsets, and perforated pipes operatively associated with said sets ofrollers to convey fluid to the material supported by said rollers.

2. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising aframe, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, bell-crankssupporting one of the rollers of each of said sets, a rod operativelyconnected to said bell-cranks and adapted to actuate the same, means foradjusting the position of said rod, and perforated pipes operativelyassociated with said sets of rollers to convey fluid to the materialsupported by said rollers.

3. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising aframe, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, means forsimultaneously varying the distance bet-ween the rollers of each of saidsets, perforated pipes operatively associated with said sets of rollersto convey fluid to the material supported by said rollers, and means forvarying the direction of rotation of said rollers.

4. An apparatus for cleansing, washing or dyeing woolens, comprising aframe, a row of sets of double rollers supported thereby, means forsimultaneously varying the distance between the rollers of each of nameto this specification in the presence said sets, perforated pipesoperatively as of two subscribing Witnesses.

sociated with said sets of rollers to convey fluid to the materialsupported by said PAOLINO BINCATO' 5 rollers, and means forautomatically vary- Witnesses:

ing the direction of rotation of said rollers. LIUGI BONTEMPINI,

In testimony whereof I have signed my FELsIo LARIVEO.

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